WEBVTT 00:02.435 --> 00:04.771 align:left position:30%,start line:89% size:60% (rap music) 00:11.277 --> 00:14.314 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% - [Man] There's a contemporary phrase that we have 00:14.314 --> 00:17.250 align:left position:20%,start line:89% size:70% (foreign language) 00:18.685 --> 00:21.888 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% frown turn to stone but the world is still alive. 00:21.888 --> 00:23.656 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% You know, we're in the midst of all this urbanity, 00:23.656 --> 00:25.692 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% we gotta make sense of our world. 00:25.692 --> 00:29.095 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% We are doing what we can with have available, 00:29.095 --> 00:31.765 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% and sometimes that means creating a cafe space 00:31.765 --> 00:34.100 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% in the back of a bookstore. 00:34.100 --> 00:35.368 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% - [Man 2] Just so everybody knows 00:35.368 --> 00:37.504 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% what our menu is today, to start off, we have 00:37.504 --> 00:39.873 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% a rosehip tea and an elderberry tea. 00:39.873 --> 00:41.875 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% A native green salad, and a dressing 00:41.875 --> 00:45.178 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% of walnut oil and blackberries. 00:45.178 --> 00:48.348 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% We have soft-boiled quail eggs, acorn soup, 00:48.348 --> 00:50.784 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% one of them with wildflower honey, one of them 00:50.784 --> 00:53.420 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% is left unsweetened, acorn flour brownies. 00:53.420 --> 00:56.523 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% We have venison, that's currently being smoked, 00:56.523 --> 00:58.091 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% with bay moral and bay salt 00:58.091 --> 00:59.826 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% from San Francisco Bay shoreline. 00:59.826 --> 01:02.162 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% So, (foreign language) welcome. 01:02.162 --> 01:03.696 align:left position:20%,start line:89% size:70% (foreign language) 01:03.696 --> 01:04.864 align:left position:30%,start line:89% size:60% Now let's eat. 01:06.733 --> 01:09.436 align:left position:20%,start line:5% size:70% - [Vicent] Luis and myself started Mukwekma 01:09.436 --> 01:11.104 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% which in (foreign language) language in means 01:11.104 --> 01:12.205 align:left position:30%,start line:89% size:60% art food. 01:12.205 --> 01:13.606 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% - [Luis] Is an organization we started 01:13.606 --> 01:16.576 align:left position:20%,start line:5% size:70% in order to return our traditional ohlene foods 01:16.576 --> 01:17.811 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% to our families who haven't 01:17.811 --> 01:21.681 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% experience in at least two generations. 01:21.681 --> 01:24.050 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% - We just got to do what we have to do to make this 01:24.050 --> 01:26.519 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% foods stay in our lives on a regular basis. 01:26.519 --> 01:31.424 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% Even when it seems like we are going against a lot of odds. 01:35.128 --> 01:36.563 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% This very place right here could be where 01:36.563 --> 01:40.433 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% our direct ancestors gather 400, 500 years ago. 01:44.204 --> 01:46.973 align:left position:30%,start line:89% size:60% (low beat music) 01:46.973 --> 01:51.945 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% - So right here this is the (foreign language) 01:52.846 --> 01:54.781 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% which is the yerba buena. 01:56.216 --> 02:00.587 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% This is an herb we make it into a tea, is that essential 02:00.587 --> 02:01.721 align:left position:30%,start line:89% size:60% taste of home. 02:03.790 --> 02:05.825 align:left position:30%,start line:89% size:60% (birds chirping) 02:05.825 --> 02:08.161 align:left position:30%,start line:89% size:60% (low music) 02:11.097 --> 02:12.699 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% It makes us feel really good to be able to 02:12.699 --> 02:14.267 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% make this kinds of food, you know. 02:14.267 --> 02:17.604 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% To be able to use this ingredients and then see 02:17.604 --> 02:20.273 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% how happy they make people also. 02:21.841 --> 02:24.277 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% People I don't think understand, how decadent and how 02:24.277 --> 02:26.146 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% rich our diet is, you know. 02:26.146 --> 02:29.149 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% We always saw that our food is inherently bochi. 02:29.149 --> 02:33.553 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% (laughter) because of their ingredients on their own 02:33.553 --> 02:38.057 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% This is a blackberry yerba buena bay moral dipping sauce. 02:38.057 --> 02:42.862 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% And we add al little of acorn flour to this ethicana 02:42.862 --> 02:45.965 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% This the bay moral we gather yesterday, 02:45.965 --> 02:50.603 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% this are quail eggs (foreign language) in our language. 02:50.603 --> 02:53.606 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% This are going to be soft boil for three minutes. 02:53.606 --> 02:56.543 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% And we are going to have roasted medicine back strap 02:56.543 --> 02:59.012 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% that is wrap in yerba buena. 02:59.012 --> 03:03.249 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% We going to have Luis's acorn flour, brownies. 03:03.249 --> 03:04.684 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% - Which has something that we made 03:04.684 --> 03:07.453 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% to introduce acorn to our young people. 03:07.453 --> 03:10.957 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% We adapted a brownie recipe to include acorn flour, 03:10.957 --> 03:14.060 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% and to use coconut oil rather than butter. 03:14.060 --> 03:16.896 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% - You know, for me our contemporary foods 03:16.896 --> 03:19.432 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% that we are making, are foods that 03:19.432 --> 03:21.201 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% our people would recognize. 03:21.201 --> 03:24.437 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% Because they are rooted in everything that is traditional. 03:24.437 --> 03:27.440 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% We do not cook with anything that wasn't here 03:27.440 --> 03:29.909 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% in those pre-contact days. 03:29.909 --> 03:32.478 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% There is always room for creativity, but we also 03:32.478 --> 03:34.981 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% know that there are rules we have to follow too. 03:34.981 --> 03:36.649 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% With those rules, that means that 03:36.649 --> 03:39.919 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% we have to be steed fast and making sure 03:39.919 --> 03:42.155 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% we don't change things too much. 03:42.155 --> 03:47.160 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% Because that changes the nature of what our food is. 03:48.595 --> 03:51.364 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% By having ohlene foods here today, it makes it inarguable 03:51.364 --> 03:52.799 align:left position:20%,start line:89% size:70% that we are here. 03:53.900 --> 03:56.603 align:left position:30%,start line:89% size:60% (low beat music)